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Ronny Lerner

Ronny Lerner is a Sports reporter for The Age.

Key moments: Sam Groth (left) and Lleyton Hewitt (right) were unable to take their chances.

Hewitt and Groth bow out of Australian Open doubles

Australian doubles pair Lleyton Hewitt and Sam Groth have bowed out of the Australian Open on Wednesday after losing their quarter-final to Colombian 11th seeds Juan Sebastian Cabal and Robert Farah 6-4 7-5 on Margaret Court Arena.

Romania's Simona Halep celebrates after defeating Japan's Naomi Osaka.

Halep breezes past Osaka to reach quarter-finals

No.1 seed Simona Halep has returned to the Australian Open quarter-finals after comfortably winning her fourth-round encounter against Japanese youngster Naomi Osaka 6-3, 6-2 at Margaret Court Arena on Monday evening.

Will Sutherland's sister, Annabel, has signed with the Melbourne Stars for the 2017-18 season.

Stars sign Sutherland for upcoming WBBL season

Annabel Sutherland, the daughter of Cricket Australia CEO James and sister of Victorian all-rounder Will, has signed with the Melbourne Stars for the upcoming 2017-18 Women's Big Bash League season.

Ash Barty: "It's very nice to be able to share the medal with so many of the legends that have held it in the past as well."

Barty's sights set on top 10

Newly crowned John Newcombe medallist Ash Barty has her sights set on the top 10 rankings of world tennis after her career-best 2017 season.

Gloveman Matthew Wade works hard in the nets.

Taylor backs Wade and Maxwell for first Test

Former Australian captain Mark Taylor is backing both Matthew Wade and Glenn Maxwell to be selected by Australia for the first Test of the Ashes series at the Gabba in a fortnight's time.